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North Shore News

Tenants must get 6 months’ demolition notice

MULTI-UNIT rental
Vancouver City must now be

fore their home is demolished,

building

tenants living in’ North
given six months’ notice be-
but this bylaw is a band-aid

measure for a serious problein according to members of

council.

The new faws, both this
municipai bylaw and the recent
provincial amendment, don’t
“deal with the overall problem —
we still need affordable housing,”
said Ald. Bill Bell, prior to the
Sept. 17 unanimous council adop-

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affordat ¢ housing is in the hands
of prevarcial and federal govern-
ment, he said, which have cut
back icp recent years.

With 63 per cent of the
res:dints Of North Vancouver Ciy
being renters, the issue is an im-
povtant one to this municipality,
said Ald. Frank Morris.

The maintenance of rental
buildings is important as a means
of retaining them, he added, say-
ing building owners are not re-

imited time.

This sale is for a very |

NOTIFICATION OF
PRICE REDUCTIONS

Under the Free Trade Act tariffs

law to maintain the
buildings, and if they don’t, a
building’s fife span can be
shortened considerably.

City council's powers are tied to
the provincial Residential Tenancy
Act.

“We have no power to force
landlords to care for their build-
ings,"’ said Bell.

But, even though the new
municipal bylaw does allow coun-
cil to provide ‘‘some help’? to

quired by

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“critical situations,”’ he
it does nothing for the
fong term.
A recent
provineial
municipalities

renters in
added,

amendment to the
act allows
to require that
landlords provide a minimum
demolition notification period of
between two and six months. The
city bylaw imposes the longer
term, requiring that tenants be
given six months’ notice.

The bylaw applies to buildings
containing at least three rental
units, therefore single-family
homes and duplexes are not
covered by it.

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